The kids got a few movies for ConsumerMas, some of which are plagued with unskipable trailers. A couple of them are blessed with no trailers at all, immediately load a menu which autoplays the feature in 10 seconds if you don't hit a button. Amazingly sensible.

I was just about to rip+reburn the offending DVDs, but that's a huge pain in the ass. Obviously the solution is to embrace a totally different pain in the ass, so I downloaded knoppmyth and just installed it on an old junker.

For a couple of years now I've been toying with the idea of copying all the damn movies to the file server and put a MythTV frontend in the TV cabinet. I'm attracted to the idea of never flipping thru another CD wallet.

Pip pip, chums. Ever wanted to replace some functionality in a Windows system DLL with your own, for purposes noble or nefarious? One way to do it is with a shim DLL, that looks and acts like the real thing but which you can hook your own functionality into on a function by function basis. Enclosed is some C++ source that will create a shim DLL for any arbitrary DLL, replicating all of its exported functions, and (by default) calling straight through to the real system DLL.

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